The United Nations special envoy for Syria, Steffan de Mistura, says the Syrian government has not yet confirmed its participation in the next round of peace talks in Geneva this week.
Reports from Pakistan say the authorities have detained at least nine people over the killing of a couple who had contracted a marriage without permission from their elders.
A monitor group says air strikes by Russian jets killed at least 53 civilians, including 21 children, in a village held by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in eastern Syria.
Pakistani Islamist activists say they will call off their weeks-long protests after reaching agreement with the government for the resignation of the country’s law minister, possibly bringing an end to days of deadly clashes in the capital.
Ankara has urged Washington to drop federal charges against a Turkish-Iranian gold trader and a banker who are accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions.
World athletics' governing body has maintained Russia's ban from international track and field, saying the country has not done enough to tackle doping.
Iran has accused the United States of being responsible for "atrocities" in Yemen through its support for Saudi Arabia, which is leading a coalition to fight Tehran-backed Huthi rebels.
Iranian state television has aired more allegations against a detained Iranian-British woman, something which, according to her husband, appeared timed to increase pressure on London as it considers making a $530 million debt payment to Tehran.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that empowers the government to designate media outlets receiving funding from abroad as "foreign agents" and impose sanctions against them.
Pakistani police have launched an operation to clear an intersection linking the capital, Islamabad, with the nearby city of Rawalpindi, where sympathizers of an Islamist group have camped out for the past three weeks.
A Czech court has ruled that a suspected Russian hacker at the center of a tug-of-war between Washington and Moscow can be extradited to the United States.
Pakistani authorities acting on a court order have released a U.S.-wanted militant who allegedly founded a banned group linked to the 2008 Mumbai attack in which 166 people were killed.
The leaders of the European Union and the six Eastern Partnership countries will meet in Brussels on November 24 in an effort to deepen ties between the EU and the former Soviet republics.
The Saudi-led military coalition that has been blockading Yemen's ports of entry said that it will reopen the main airport and a important Red Sea port to humanitarian traffic on November 23.
The Iraqi military says it has launched a major operation to clear the western desert near the Syrian border of Islamic State (IS) fighters.
The UN's investigation into who is behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria "is dead," but Russia is open to efforts by Western powers to establish "a new mechanism," Moscow's UN ambassador has said.
A court in Pakistan has ordered the release from house arrest of an Islamist leader accused of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, his lawyer and a prosecutor say.
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